Funnily enough I used mine for the 1st time on Saturday !I have a couple of beer guns.What make is yours?Mine is a V2.0 Blichmann and it pissed beer everywhere then I realised I had the beer and C02 lines round the wrong way! (lots of people have done this apparently) I used a dual output C02 regulator to purge the bottles with C02 @ approx. 15-20 psi and the other output on the keg pressurised at about 6psi.Thought the Blichmann gun was faulty as its brand new but out of warranty as i've had it for ages but not used it (so packed it back into the box in anger 'till I re-read the instructions properly grrr... )- tried my other one I bought recently as it was half price and brand new- this is a Last Straw one. They both worked fine cant say one was better than the other though both gave good results.

I’ve had the blichman for a couple of months but it’s still in the box. I was still having foaming issues with a party tap so put the beer gun on ice. Think I’ve sorted my party tap foaming by keeping it cold and realising after a pint of foam it starts working ok now.

Will have a go with the blichman later this week. After a carefull read on instructions

I make sure that my beer is really cold, i.e. 3C or less and that the bottles are at the same temperature.

It also works better on lower carbed beers and generally bigger bottles are easier to fill. The 750ml champagne bottles seem to work the best for me.

I keep the gun resting in a bucket of StarSan when it’s not in a bottle.

Hold the bottle on a 45 degree angle and make sure that the gun goes right in to the inside edge of the bottle and make sure you cap on foam.

so for well Carbed american style beers ( 2.5 ish?) can i expect problems do you think? everything( bottles, keg, tubing and beer gun) can be kept around 2c before hand.

I managed to bottle a hefeweizen once, but it lost a great deal of the carbonation in the process.

it lost all the "spritz" you would normally associate with the style. If I bother to bottle, the beergun is generally only used on stouts and porters.

I'd be concerned at how much carbonation you will lose. Give it a try with several bottles and see what you think.

The beauty of the beergun is that it allows you to rapidly bottle a few beers to take somehere with you. It's certainly not for long term storage as there is too great a chance of oxygenation in the process.